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Jason Miller, 2004-12-01

Trust with hardware vendors for open source systems is becoming a one-way street, where in exchange for support they offer a closed source binary solution with no provision to audit security.

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Closed Source Hardware - Clarifications 2004-12-03
Jason V. Miller (Author)
> If I understand the wireless card issue correctly (and I may not), vendors of
> these cards are beginning to distribute the card's firmware as a piece of
> software that the OS uploads into the device as opposed to having the firmware
> permanently placed into the device itself. There's really ...

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